Lưu trữ Danh mục: Film

Guapo’y review – the scars of Paraguay’s past revealed through healing plants

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At once understated and emotionally shattering, Sofia Paoli Thorne’s documentary begins with an image of healing. The camera lingers on the back of a woman, as she applies herbal remedies to her back, flecked with faded scars. This, however, is no casual nighttime routine; now in her 60s, Celsa was once imprisoned in the notorious […]

After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing

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This year, the legendary Disney short film Steamboat Willie, the first film to feature Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain. In theory, that means this version of Mickey Mouse now belongs to the people, who are free to share, reuse, sample, repurpose or perform works featuring him however they see fit, without fear of reprisal […]

Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus has pushed back at former co-star Jerry Seinfeld’s negative remarks about “political correctness” in comedy, saying that having “an antenna about sensitivities is not a bad thing” and that complaining about political correctness is “a red flag, because it sometimes means something else”. Louis-Dreyfus was speaking to the New York Times and was […]

Hounds review – pitch-black comedy drama of hapless Moroccan dog-fighting hoodlums

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Kamal Lazraq is a Moroccan film-maker who had been a prize winner at Cannes for his student film Drari; now he makes his feature debut with this tough, violent and extravagantly black-comic drama-thriller set, like much of his previous work, in the tough streets of Casablanca. Abdellatif Masstouri and Ayoub Elaid play Hassan and Issam: […]

Àma Gloria review – amazing performances in sensitive drama about a kid and her nanny

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By rights Louise Mauroy-Panzani should be at the front of the queue for every acting award going for her role in this gorgeous French drama. Just six years old at the time of filming (the casting director spotted her in Paris arguing with her brother in the street), she gives a performance so open and […]

Sorcery review – orphaned girl out for revenge in unsettling Indigenous horror

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Just as the 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent reversed the terms of the Aguirre-style colonialist expedition picture, this Chilean-Mexican-German collaboration (produced by Pablo Larraín) is a kind of inverted horror film that similarly draws on South American history. Where in western horror, Indigenous or pagan elements usually become demonised return-of-the-repressed fodder, in Chilean director […]

Matt Bomer claims he missed out on Superman role because of his sexuality

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The actor Matt Bomer has claimed that he missed out on being cast as the lead in an axed 2003 Superman movie Flyby because of his sexuality. Speaking on the Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, Bomer said: “It looked like I was the director’s choice for the role. I signed a three-picture deal at Warner […]

Treasure review – Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry uneasy in well-intentioned Holocaust drama

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An uncomfortable experience this: a laboriously acted odd-couple heartwarmer starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, with a sentimentality unsuited to its theme: the horrors of the Holocaust. Director and co-writer Julia Von Heinz has adapted the 1999 autobiographical novel Too Many Men by Lily Brett, whose father Max was a Holocaust survivor from the Lodz […]

Hard stares ready: first trailer released for Paddington 3

Break out the marmalade sandwiches: the first trailer for the third Paddington movie has been released. Paddington in Peru, due for release in November, sees the duffel-coated bear travel to South America to pay a visit to Aunt Lucy along with the Brown family. But on arrival he’s told by a guitar-playing nun who runs […]

Inside Out 2 review – Pixar returns to emotional Mission Control for Riley’s teen years

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The first Inside Out took us into the Mission Control operations centre within the mind of a kid, and showed us the five emotions amusingly piloting her every decision – Joy, Fear, Rage, Disgust and Sadness – as well as all sorts of dizzyingly intricate detail about memory balls and personality islands. Now the sequel-upgrade […]